Sometimes I amaze myself

A couple of days ago I was walking through the nursery and looked at our new fruit bush hedge we started last year. they are starting to bloom but what was conspicuous was the difference in growth it put out compared to our trees in containers we have for sale.

In most circumstances you would expect trees in the ground do better than trees in containers. Right?

Well, no! The trees in the ground had about 1 ft of growth. The trees we have for sale had 3-6 ft of new growth.

I have been walking by the trees all year long and didn't do anything about it. The difference is fertilizer. By investing in about $5.00 of fertilizer we could have had as much or even more growth last year than our containerized fruit trees.

I tell our customers and tell our customers the importance in fertilizing to get good growth and we loose a whole years growth because when we were walking by with fertilizer in our hand we never bothered to put some on the fruit bushes!

Yes, fertilizer does make a difference! and not just with fruit bushes! when young plants respond to fertilizer.

My flowers and vegetables I fertilize lightly every two weeks starting from the time I plant them. Roses I fertilize every 6 weeks. Regular bushes and trees I fertilize 3-4 times a year until they are functioning in the landscape.

Unless I forget. Don't you forget!